What 矃 means
It means “to look” and can describe a fixed stare. In 搜神記, a Chinese collection of strange tales, a ghost is described as 矃目磋齒 (“staring and grinding its teeth”). 玉篇, an old character dictionary, glosses it with 視 (“to look”); later dictionaries equate it with 瞠 and record 盯矃.
A literary, dictionary-attested word for a gaze.
If someone sends you 矃 alone, ask what word or passage they mean.
Questions people ask
1Why does 矃 appear as a box?
The active font may lack this character. A missing CJK glyph can display as a box or blank even when the text still contains 矃.
How to type 矃
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 77C3, then Alt+X to get 矃.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-77c3”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 77c3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
矃CSS
\77C3Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
矃
HTML hex
矃
CSS content
content: "\77C3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%9F%83
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.